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Deputies have arrested a Florida woman whose 14-year-old daughter was charged this week with
maliciously harassing another young girl who jumped off a tower to her death.

Vivian Vosburg, 30, of Lakeland, was charged with two counts of child abuse with bodily harm and
four counts of child neglect, the Polk County sheriff said.

The charges are unrelated to the arrest of Vosburg’s daughter, the sheriff’s office said in a
statement.

They stem from a video posted on Facebook that showed two children fighting while a woman
punched them and screamed profanities at them, the statement said.

Vosburg admitted to investigators that she was the woman in the video and that she had punched
one child in the face and had punched the other several times on the back of the head and
shoulders, the sheriff’s office said.

She was jailed pending a hearing scheduled for this morning.

Vosburg and her husband have seven children. The sheriff’s office did not identify the children
in the video but said Vosburg “had access” to them and that child protective services had been
called in.

Vosburg’s 14-year-old daughter and a 12-year-old friend were charged on Tuesday with felony
aggravated stalking of Rebecca Ann Sedwick, who was 12 when she committed suicide last month after
being bullied at school and online.